Haemaphysalis punctaleachi Camicas, Hoogstraal and El Kammah, 1973

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 188

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scientific name	Haemaphysalis punctaleachi Camicas, Hoogstraal and El Kammah, 1973
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An Afrotropical species whose adults are usually found on Carnivora : Viverridae , but they have also been found on Artiodactyla : Bovidae , Carnivora (several families), and Rodentia : Hystricidae . There are no records of Haemaphysalis punctaleachi causing human parasitism.

M: Camicas et al. (1973)

F: Camicas et al. (1973)

N: unknown

L: unknown

Redescriptions

M: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

F: Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

References

Camicas, J. L., Hoogstraal, H. & El Kammah, K. M. (1973) Notes on African Haemaphysalis ticks. XI. H. (R.) punctaleachi sp. n., a parasite of West African forest carnivores (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae). Journal of Parasitology, 59, 563 - 568. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3278796

Matthysse, J. G. & Colbo, M. H. (1987) The ixodid ticks of Uganda. Entomological Society of America, College, Park, Maryland, 426 pp.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Ixodida
Family	Ixodidae
Genus	Haemaphysalis

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